. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN OPINING OF THE ONTARIO AND RAINY RIVER DIVISION OF THE CANADIAN NORTHERN RAILWAY. The accompanying illustration is from a photograph taken on January ist on the occasion of the driving of the last spike of the Ontario and Rainy River division of the Cana- dian Northern Railway. Hon. E. J. Davis will be noticed with the spike maul on his shoulder, the silver spike in his left hand. On his left is Mr. William MacKenzie, with Mr. D. Mann on his righ
. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN OPINING OF THE ONTARIO AND RAINY RIVER DIVISION OF THE CANADIAN NORTHERN RAILWAY. The accompanying illustration is from a photograph taken on January ist on the occasion of the driving of the last spike of the Ontario and Rainy River division of the Cana- dian Northern Railway. Hon. E. J. Davis will be noticed with the spike maul on his shoulder, the silver spike in his left hand. On his left is Mr. William MacKenzie, with Mr. D. Mann on his right. The ceremony was performed at the divisional point, Atikokan, one hundred and thirty miles west of Port Arthur, and closed with singing the National Anthem. The second and third illustrations show the two sides of the first car of lumber sent over copper. The Hon. E. J. Davis (than whom there should be no better authority on the forest wealth of Ontario) states that he is satisfied this portion of the country contains from seven hundred million to nine hundred million feet of pine, leaving out all other kinds of woods, such as spruce, tamarac and birch, which exist in abundance. Forty miles from Port Arthur the road enters the Mattawin Iron Range, and at one hundred and thirty miles is met a most magnificent body of magnetic iron ore known as the Atikokan. This mountain is within one thousand feet of the rail for a distance of ten miles, and is one of the largest ore bodies in America. North of this range are the various silver mining properties, and west of the surrounding hill tops. From this point the road follows the bed of the Kaninistiqua river, with its falls and rapids, then traversing through the many river valleys and by the shores of a hundred inland lakes, the waters of which are abounding in fish and the forest in game. And you are still travelling in New Ontario, and a vast and rich portion that has come into promi- nence as it were in a day. The building of th
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